Show more than twice the present requirements require require- ments meats to the lower section The upper upper upper up up- per section awarded acre- acre fe feet t which is also double its ita pi- pi present present pres- pres ent eat needs ne About acre- acre feet of the total flow will be held In reserve for future apportionment as needs now may devel devel- op p p. p Harnessing the Colorado In accordance accordance ac ac- ac with th present plans is an undertaking greater in extent difficulties nd nd os ithan any any work work since Cecil Rhodes projected tIre tile to Cape railroad in Africa Even EvenS the great dam is comparatively of ot less Import import- ance A great territory will willbe be opened opened opened open open- ed to agriculture where farming is isnow isnow isnow now impossible and instead or country's depending upon mining cattle and sheep a dozen new avenues of activity will be opened up The In Industrial industrial industrial in- in development may be almost anything that cheap eap power In almost unlimited quantities can make malte it Even the mining Industry upon wl which ich the terrItory sc cc largely depends depends de de- de at present presen t may be largely ex- ex l. for the 42 IJO square miles In the basin may contain untold deposits deposits deposits de de- de- de posits of minerals which have never as yet yel been worked because of the prohibitive cost of development Behind this great enterprise is 15 the League of the Southwest an organization organization organization organ organ- formed to support every movement looking to the improvement improvement improve improve- ment meat of that section of the country It was was was' the league which influenced largely the creation of the Colorado river which has worked out the treaty between the th-o states and the federal government In rec roe ord-breaking ord time and it is redoubling redoubling ing its efforts now to see that the compact is ratified by the legislatures legislatures legisla legisla- tures o of or the several states A romantic feature f of the project is to be found in the fact that surveys surveys surveys sur sur- veys of this reaching far-reaching territory have disclosed traces of an irrigation system that was in operation thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of years ago The story of what water will do to desert lands is isby isby isby by no means a new one nor have the final chapters as yet been writ written Von |